The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-05-28
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Monday, June 9th, by Chas. E. Wilcox, attorney,
valuable leasehold property on Lennox street,
Monday, June 9th, by d. G. Mcintosh, trustee,
valuable property, consisting OF farms, 4 Iis
kilns, quarries, &C., belonging to the late John
o. Price.
The public schools of the county close for
the summer vacation on Thursday, June 5oth.
The young folks of Lutherville are forming
a tennis club and they expect soon to be ready for
play.
The annual commencement of the McDon-
OCH School, in this county, takes place Saturday,
June 4th.
One hundred and fifty five passenger trains
now pass through Union Station every twenty
four hours.
avenue, 9th district has been MED Win the Coun-
ty Commissioners.
Col Levin Woodford, State Tax Commits
s;oner. was in Towsontown on Friday, on business
connected with his Office.
Monday next, May 3Oth, is Union Memoir
al or Decoration Day, when the soldiers graves
will be strewn with flowers.
Col. S. N. Hyde, of Long Green Valley,
has 125 acres of corn growing beautifully, some
of it fully twelve inches high.
postmaster at st. James, Baltimore county, vice
Mr.. Thos. J. Miller, declined.
The receipts of the County Treasurer's of
fces-Towsontown and Baltimore-on Saturday
last amounted to something over $4,000.
Mr.. George Lauman, aged sixty years,
we'll known carpenter of Union, LIST district, drop
ped dead from heart disease on Wednesday.
The citizens of Patapsco Neck have petit
toned the County Commissioners for new voting
precinct for that section of the 18th district.
Mr. James G.. Kirkwood, q we'll known cit
izen of ElIicott City, has gone to Ottawa, Kansas,
to reside permanently, taking his family with him.
Gen. Bradley T. johnson will deliver an
address before the Hartford County Historical So
ciety, at Darlington, Tuesday evening. May 31st.
The following are the postofices on the new
B. o. line in this county: Rosedale, White
Marsh, Convention, Morrison, Joppa and Brad
shaw.
Mrs. Abbott has presented Rev. ]. Wynne
Jones, pastor of the Abbott Presbyterian Church,
Highlandtown, with a handsome horse, carriage
and harness.
The unsightly trestle of the Maryland
Central railroad spanning the turnpike in this
place. is to be replaced at an early date with an
iron bridge.
The new Baptist Church at Middetown, 9th
district, will be formally dedicated on Sunday,
June 18th, when all-day services will be held
Public invited.
Some of the horses now at work on the Ii
monium track are doing very well and it is said
that Mr.. Chas. W. Lees "John W." has shown a
mile close to thirty.
-Messrs. Ditch Bros, well known business
men of the Belt, lately purchased handsome
pair of horses from Mr.. Vincent Sanner, of Fred
erick county, for 5000.
Mr.. E. B. Peasants, formerly chief engi-
neer of the Maryland Central railroad. is about
starting for South Carolina, where ne VIII DC en-
-Jessop's NJ. E. Church, above Cockeysville,
will be re.opened next Sunday, May 10Th, when
an all day meeting will be held. Bishop Andrews
will preach in the morning.
The City Water Board is having Lake Ro-
land dragged with seine to rid it Of some OF the
fish, which, it is thought, are causing the water
to have bad taste and smell.
There was an all-day meeting at the Bap-
fist Church, at Butler, on Sunday last, which was
largely attended. Several persons were immersed
in the pool in the church-yard.
"A few days ago while Mr.. John Posey, OF
"Brightside," was fishing in Lake Roland, he
captured German carp which measured twenty
inches in length and weighed At lbs.
"A letter from Lynchburg, Va, addressed
simply Cookers Vile, baltimore" was received
at the Baltimore postofice on Tuesday. 1t was
forwarded to Cockeysville, Baltimore county.
Don't forget the farmers meeting at the
Timonium Fair Grounds, Wednesday, June 1st
It will be in the nature of a basket picnic and
will be an event of much interest and pleasure.
Mr.. W. K. Sutton, of Baltimore, formerly
proprietor of the Emmit House, Emmitsburg, Md,
has rented the Smedley House, Towsontown, for
the summer and will take charge of it June lst.
The country seat of the late Robert Lehr,
on Roland avenue, 9th district, has been sold to
Mrs. R. NJ. McSherry for something like $4,000.
It contains Al acres and has good improvements
The State Lunacy Commission visited the
Rsrs not sTcraBy With he Manage
ment of the insurance department of that institu-
ton.
Rev S. M. Brandt, S. j., will deliver free
lecture in the hall at Randallstown, I'd district,
Monday evening, May goth, at o'clock. Subject
Gland Communism, or Henry George and the
Right of Property"
The Messrs. Hooper, proprietors of the
mills at Woodbury. and Mount Washington, have
fixed the following holidays for their hands during
the summer: May 30th, July 4th and 9th and the
first two weeks in August.
Mr.. P. Harris, lessee OF the Baltimore
Academy of Music, has rented one of the hand
some and beautifully located cottages of Mr.. j.
A. Edmondson, on the west side of Charles street
avenue, near Blythwood Station.
The Towson Guards are preparing for the
State militia encampment at Hagerstown next
August, and Capt. MCLEAN is holding school OF
instruction two nights each week to perfect his
men in camp duties of various kinds
The showers of the past week did great
deal towards freshening up vegetation, but there
was not enough rain to do any lasting good. The
ground was very dry and the drouth was begin
ming to tell on the grass and young corn.
The present Grand Jury, of which Col. W.
S. Franklin is foreman, is working body of men.
On the second day after it met it returned pre-
sentiment to the Court, and this is something we
never remember to have seen done before.
The Mite Society of Chestnut Grove Pres
byyterian Church will hold strawberry festival
for the benefit of the church, at the parsonage,
Sweet Air, Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
June 9Th and 9th, commencing at o'clock.
"A mission will commence in the Church OF
the Holy Family, Harrisonville, I'd district We'd
nesdav night June LIST, and close Sunday morn
ing. June 5th, at 9 a. m. The mission will be
directed by Rev. Fathers Dewitt and Brandt.
Mr.. Henry F. New, of Baltimore, has rent
ed for the summer, through Mr.. +. ID. LION, agent,
the old homestead of DR.. G. M. Bosley, on the
Joppa road, west of Towsontown. Mr.. New is q
member of the firm of Messrs. P. New Sons.
The funeral of Rev. ]. S. M. Haslup,
of Wayerly NJ. E. Church, whose death was no
ticed in these columns last week, took place on
Monday at Union Square Church, Baltimore. The
interment was made in Loudon Park Cemetery.
The property Of Albert Mcclure, at Bynum
Station, MARYLAND Central railroad, has been sold
to Mr.. Eli Tucker, for $4,000. 1t embraces
store and dwelling with Ill acres Of land attached
Cen. James C. Clarke has at last succeeded
in resigning the presidency of the Illinois Central
r. R. Company, but he remains member of the
Board of Directors. He never lost his residence
in Maryland and will again make his home here.
Mr. Thomas r. Crane, who formerly owned
the Cowpens farm in Lime Kiln Bottom, neal
Towsontown, has lately obtained five patents fol
grain drill and attachments. For several years
Mr.. Crane has been engaged in farming at Heaths
vile, Va.
Mr.. A. D. Sanks, superintendent of the
York turnpike, has had men engaged the past
week removing the loose stones from the surface
of the road. This is a good work as horses are
frequently crippled by treadjng upon loose stones
on the pike.
w Eldridge Wiley, son of the late David
Wiley, of Hartford county, who was for some tint
engaged in business in Baltimore, has gone t
California, leaving, it is said, numerous unpaid
debts. The young man is well known in Balti
more county.
Mrs Kate v. Kepler, widow ofthe late DR.
Samuel Kepler, who was at one time School Elk
aminer for Baltimore county, died at her residence
in Baltimore, on the 21st instant. She was thu
youngest daughter of the late William M. Ris
teau, of Lime Kiln Bottom, Baltimore county
Her only child "a daughter) died in the sousi